Síndrome de dolor miofascial. Casos clínicos

A review of the cases reports presented to the “Specialist in Conservative and Invasive Physical Therapy in Myofascial Pain Syndrome” course, in Castilla-La Mancha University, is done to analyze how the knowledge of Myofascial pain Syndrome (MPS) can contribute to everyday physical therapy treatment.Results are shown as abstracts from chosen cases reports.Conclusions are: a) Trigger point therapy can be the key in the treatment of patients whose main problem is pain; b) MPS appears as a Physical Therapy diagnosis that could replace vague diagnostic terms like cervicalgia, low back pain, contracture, etc., and c) different hypothesis are extracted and summed up from this review: a part of the pain and the dysfunction that patients suffer with different diseases (articular, tendinous, visceral, orthopedic,traumatological, rheumatological or neurological diseases) could be decreased through trigger point therapy.